The US Coast Guard reports the received a call from Carnival Fantasy at 1:30am Sunday morning (May 24, 2009) reporting they had a 50-year-old woman aboard who was suffering from internal bleeding, and the doctor was requesting she be medevaced from the ship.
Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans dispatched an MH-65C Dolphin rescue helicopter to the ship and successfully lifted the woman from the ship at approximately 2:30am and transported her to a hospital in Marrero, Louisiana.
Carnival Fantasy was approximately 30 miles south of the Southwest Pass at the time. Carnival Fantasy had just departed New Orleans Saturday evening on a 7-day cruise to Key West and Nassau. (This is one of the revised itineraries during the suspension of calls in Mexico that lengthened the cruise from five to seven nights.)
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